Garden House Behind Number 2, Greycourt is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1953. Summerhouse.
Garden House Behind Number 2, Greycourt
- WRENN ID
- north-glass-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1953
- Type
- Summerhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden house behind No. 2 Greycourt is a summerhouse built in the late 18th century and restored around 1987. It is constructed of squared sandstone rubble with an ashlar upper storey and features a slate roof. The building has an octagonal plan and consists of two storeys above a cellar. It is positioned against a garden wall, with a doorway located on the south-east side.
On the ground floor, there are windows on three sides to the right of the doorway, featuring glazing bar sashes that appear to be 20th-century reproductions of the originals. The first-floor windows are similar and include a sill band. The southern side, to the left of the doorway, has a blind recess. The structure is topped with a stone gutter cornice and a central octagonal ashlar chimney cap.
Inside, the garden house contains a cantilevered stone stair with iron stick balusters and a mahogany handrail. A second flight of stone steps leads down to a barrel-vaulted cellar. On the first floor, there is a cast-iron fireplace surround with a hob grate and boiler.
Historically, the garden house is not depicted on Stephen Mackereth's map of 1778, but it does appear in J Walker's engraving of Lancaster Old Bridge from 1797. In 1807, Clark noted that a fragment of the adjoining Wery Wall supported the north wall of the summerhouse, which was located next to the Vicarage Field.
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